Abraham Ecumene: Why Judaism, Christianity and Islam Worship the Same God (February 17, 2017)

Abraham Ecumene: Why Judaism, Christianity and Islam Worship the Same God. Do Judaism, Christianity and Islam worship the same God? The answer is yes because of "Abraham Ecumene". All three of these Abrahamic religions positively affirm Abraham as their father and esteemed prophet: Christians regard Abraham as their spiritual father, and both Judaism […]

Related: abraham, Abraham Ecumene, and Future, Father Abraham, Hans Küng, Henotheism, Henotheist, Ishmael, Islam, Islam: Past, Karl-Josef Kuschel, Present

The Structure of Theological Revolutions (December 12, 2016)

Theology develops over time—it seems obvious to me, but I have friends who disagree. Every theological doctrine has a history, beginning with the first person to think it and describe it, and then it is refined over centuries by many others. Hans Küng keenly compares the development of theology to the development […]

Related: Augustine, Copernicus, Einstein, Hans Küng, Models, Newton, science, Theological Revolutions, theology, Theology for the Third Millennium, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Kuhn

The Errors of Inerrancy: #3 Inerrancy Censors the Bible’s Capacity for Error (October 13, 2016)

[The Errors of Inerrancy: A ten-part series on why Biblical Inerrancy censors the Scriptures and divides Evangelicals.] The Errors of Inerrancy: #3. Inerrancy Censors the Bible's Capacity for Error. Introduction What harm is there in believing that the Bible might be Inerrant? In most cases, Biblical Inerrancy is a relatively harmless foreign praxis applied to […]

Related: Biblical Inerrancy, CD I/2, Church Dogmatics, Church Dogmatics I/2, Hans Küng, Karl Barth, Martin Luther, The Errors of Inerrancy, Wolfhart Pannenberg

A letter from Hans Küng (May 6, 2016)

Hans Küng is a famous Swiss Catholic theologian and a personal hero of mine, so I was over joyed to receive a personal letter from him yesterday. Küng was a peritus at Vatican II, and is most famous for his criticism of Papal Infallibility in his book Infallible? and for his […]

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Hans Küng’s Argument Against Feuerbach’s Atheism (December 14, 2015)

Is God's existence only a projection of man's wishes that corresponds to no object in reality? Ludwig Feuerbach thinks so, and it is the basis of his atheism. Feuerbach is famous for his belief that theology is reducible to anthropology, such that man's religious beliefs are projections of his wishes so that man […]

Related: Atheism, Feuerbach, Hans Küng

15 Theology Books Defining My Autobiography (January 15, 2015)

I've read over 500 theology books in the last ten years. (Some people read these many books every year!) Of all these books, there are fifteen books that stand apart as guideposts in my journey of exploration in theology. I don't recommend all of these books today, but these books […]

Related: Dumitru Staniloae, Florovsky Society, Friedrich Schleiermacher, George Eldon Ladd, George Hunsinger, Georges V. Florovsky, Hans Küng, Hans Urs Von Balthasar, Jaroslav Pelikan, John Calvin, john piper, Jonathan Edwards, Jürgen Moltmann, Karl Barth, Karl Rahner, n.t. wright

Hans Küng on Peter’s Confession that Pauline Justification by Faith Alone is Hard to Understand (December 5, 2014)

El Greco - Saints Peter and Paul (source: wikipedia) Peter truly speaks as the victor of Rome when he said that Paul's Doctrine of Faith Alone was difficult to understand. This is an Essene pesher when I equate Peter with Roman Catholicism and Paul with Protestantism, but is it not true […]

Related: Doctrine of Justification, Hans Küng, Peter and Paul, Second Council of Orange, Tridentine

Hans Kung says Catholic Justification is not Synergistic (October 6, 2014)

Hans Kung Universidad de Educación a Distancia (2011) (source: wikipedia) Hans Küng's Justification: The Doctrine of Karl Barth and a Catholic Reflection proposes a solution to the articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiae that has captivated me, and I've been writing a series on this excellent work. In the following quotations, Küng addresses the question of whether […]

Related: articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiae, Hans Küng, Justification, Karl Barth, Partly-Partly

Eberhard Jüngel on Justification: Hans Küng and the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (September 15, 2014)

Justification (source: bloomsbury) Eberhard Jüngel is a Lutheran theologian and Tübingen professor who is author of a book on the doctrine of justification, Justification: The Heart of the Christian Faith. I've been writing about The Legacy of Hans Küng's Doctrine of Justification (JDDJ) and asking how to respond to Kung's question: "Is it […]

Related: Doctrine of Justification, Eberhard Jüngel, Hans Küng, JDDJ, Joint Declaration, Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, Justification, Justification: The Heart of the Christian Faith, Karl Barth, Pope John Paul II

The Legacy of Hans Küng’s Doctrine of Justification (August 24, 2014)

Hans Küng (1928—) was ordained in 1955, and his doctoral thesis, Justification: La Doctrine de Karl Barth et Une Réflexion Catholique was published in 1957 (Justification: The Doctrine of Karl Barth and a Catholic Reflection, 1964 ET). Justification was Küng's first book and was a study of the Protestant and Roman Catholic teachings on the Doctrine of Justification […]

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